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blad

Pronunciation: /¹blɑːd/

“blad” is a Swedish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a leaf (including in the broad sense that includes needles and the like (to botanists and often not to other people, in both Swedish and English – not a technical word in itself))
  2. a petal or sepal (on a flower)
  3. a sheet (of paper)
  4. a page
  5. a paper ((copy of a) newspaper)
  6. a blade (of a tool, device, weapon, or the like)
  7. leaf (thin sheet of material)

Etymology

From Old Swedish blaþ, from Old Norse blað, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-tó-m, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. Cognate with English blade.

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